Passing Thoughts
Friday, March 19th, 2010 Posted in Cap Analysis, Player Analysis, Prospects | 12 Comments »Ok, just a few things that have been bouncing around in my head recently. 1. Nikolai Kulemin is more deserving of the money Matt Stajan recieved than Matt Stajan is. That being said, I'd offer him 2 years at $3.2 million and ...
Youth In Full Effect
Thursday, March 11th, 2010 Posted in Game Analysis, Player Analysis, Prospects, Stat Analysis | 11 Comments »How's this grab you all as a stat line for the Leafs victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Thursday night? Luke Schenn: 1A, +3, 3 shots, 2 hits, 22:37 TOI Dion Phaneuf: even rating, 8 shots, 2 hits, 26:43 TOI Luca Caputi: ...
Olympics In Rearview - Now On To Trade Deadline Day
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 Posted in Player Analysis, Prospects, Stat Analysis | 20 Comments »So the Olympics ended on a high note for Canada, but perhaps not so much for the Leafs top trio of Brian Burke, Ron Wilson, and Phil Kessel, who all represented the silver medalist United States. What does that mean ...
Four Games In
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 Posted in Player Analysis, Prospects, Stat Analysis | 14 Comments »So the new look Leafs seem to be adjusting to life without Matt Stajan, Ian White, Nik Hagman, Jamal Mayers, Vesa Toskala, and Jason Blake reasonably well. The additions of Dion Phaneuf, Fredrik Sjostrom, and J.S. Giguere seem to have ...
Burke “Open For Business”
Monday, February 1st, 2010 Posted in Announcements, Player Analysis, Prospects, Stat Analysis | 19 Comments »So it looks like we finally have a new Maple Leafs squad. I'm not sure it's the one we envisioned Brian Burke cobbling together slowly through the draft, but it certainly isn't the one he took over halfway through last ...
Where The Leafs Stand
Monday, January 25th, 2010 Posted in Player Analysis, Prospects, Stat Analysis | 34 Comments »So we know the Leafs will be sellers at the trade deadline. Frankly we've known that since we were 10 games into the season when it was abundantly clear the team was likely out of the playoff race. Despite the ...
Crunch Time
Saturday, January 16th, 2010 Posted in Game Analysis, Player Analysis, Prospects | 16 Comments »I apologise for my lack of regular postings since the end of the holiday season. It is the end of Semester and we are down into "crunch time" for most of my students, and helping them to obtain credits and ...
Leafs Can’t Get Much Worse
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 Posted in Player Analysis, Prospects | 11 Comments »There's some good news coming for Leafs fans. They're soon going to see less of the likes of Garnet Exelby and Jeff Finger on the blue line. They might actually see some more scoring up front amongst their forwards. They ...
Tyler Bozak Promoted
Monday, January 11th, 2010 Posted in Announcements, Player Analysis, Prospects, Stat Analysis | 6 Comments »The Leafs have promoted Tyler Bozak to centre a line that had Rickard Wallin centring Phil Kessel and Nikolai Kulemin in practice yesterday. With Wallin being taken off that line, it remains to be seen who Wilson will actually be ...
Leafs Take Blow(s) To Middle
Monday, January 4th, 2010 Posted in Player Analysis, Prospects | 8 Comments »It looks like the Leafs recent rocky road could be about to get rockier. The losses of Mikhail Grabovski and Wayne Primeau to long term injury means the spell of recent offensive decline suffered by the team could be about ...
